%0 Journal Article %T Preface to the Rostock Debate on Demographic Change %A Laura Bernardi %A Pascal Hetze %J Demographic Research %D 2011 %I Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research %X The first Rostock Debate on Demographic Change, which took place on February 21, 2006, centered on the following question: Should governments in Europe push much more aggressively for gender equality to raise fertility? The four debaters were Laurent Toulemon from the Institut National d'Etudes Demograhiques (France), Dimiter Philipov from the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austria), Livia Ol¨¢h from Stockholm University (Sweden), and Gerda Neyer from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) %U http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/6/